From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 19 13:55:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A3F106568F; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:55:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmw@coder.cl) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 715CD8FC52; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe11 with SMTP id 11so5684234yxe.3 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.235.1 with SMTP id i1mr4843774agh.5.1250688326449; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quake ([200.73.29.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm1354127aga.61.2009.08.19.06.25.24 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:25:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Daniel Molina Wegener Organization: http://coder.cl/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:23:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4A8C01DC.4C29.0070.0@cput.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4A8C01DC.4C29.0070.0@cput.ac.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1621623.RxLzkDbIiA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908190923.59655.dmw@coder.cl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, BONGANI MANGANYE <205038328@cput.ac.za> Subject: Re: freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: dmw@coder.cl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:55:01 -0000 --nextPart1621623.RxLzkDbIiA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 19 August 2009 07:42:39 BONGANI MANGANYE wrote: > I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will > I pay if I need additional package like updates and other > useful software,and can you tell how secure it is how > protected i will be if i use freebsd FreeBSD is released under the BSD license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php Most third party software is licensed as OSI Approved: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/category Some third party software have commercial restrictions, but are the minor ones... The only restrictions that you have to use FreeBSD are those restrictions which the license have. It also applies to third party software that you like to use. About the security on FreeBSD --- and most FOSS platforms =2D-- it depends on the system administrator. Reaching exploitable bugs is strange with a well done configuration. > > [SNIP] Best regards, =2D-=20 .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | FreeBSD & Linux ..O | dmw [at] coder [dot] cl | Open Standards OOO | http://coder.cl/ | FOSS Developer --nextPart1621623.RxLzkDbIiA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAABCgAGBQJKi/zvAAoJEHxqfq6Y4O5NjDUP/jUs/WwGs4l/7k57gcc54NNl 38505NlevRD99oscXMJ08MMASH8pvSmFF26v3QYK5c+Zoeb29ZCYaFNOLIsrPFFV +WKq1S2mCXRKq0oXjul0wFWKkfrDXGXUXMz6RaPItxaY0V5HmhdyszZ4BW0tErnj CpvvEJhsPzesn/+FnmTAeUmVkX4/ZVNqBFRbdgDHz1XdDN0zfXeEG+uw9XAoWxYy KeTp2ADYSjJGU93gWdsU7mBc2rgJ3O7A8R+qLy6nIigvbnyd7cDwVoHJ9Y9WGMz7 mjcJI3brOQxtg7kM8UCH9J+XpXA8lCX/9C6z3JJMCT+NXv92VrO4pZw6OdBVliV9 bf8r4HAmD/70z6/WK5YLwROgr4HE0zfmR2AGX9n1mPTT9FsCkkL7tOPJAnPEvawK B/HQbnKr7/zkV7xzfrML1f5SOOI3sNF9mSz0q80zgnxfHMWaoi/W/eZ/o86xS7bM UlPIWp0LcjbA9S5vCksVE8HW1sHPij0sRLcFt3o9Tqh9zyO820GgSDsWyMaH5Wk3 pZj8xt1A8Npl8t3bqLDTBOtQRE1jKw92kq8ydMhmIZnqNPLMX/8LR0Tr976YkanZ IVS10F+4tJR28Crkz8U2XbDvhDML2lKVpCFlPo7syDhVvlf8UyhPcH2AWxz3/il0 emXq50TLPlSw39vaWsAH =/tBI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1621623.RxLzkDbIiA--